This is the Espace Mobile hailing from Salzburg, Austria. According to the website, the interior and exterior is fully customizable, with the shell made of spruce wood and aluminum metal sheeting. Like many pre-fabs, the price doesn’t include land, foundation, connection or set-up fees, or transportation. Nonetheless, it’s designed to be affordable, mobile, and environmentally friendly. I think all that depends on how you customize and specify construction. See fact sheet.

"F2" is short for "Flickr Friday," a weekly short posted on Friday with an image from Flickr and a quick description. Feel free to email me your F2 ideas.

It looks like the joint-venture partnership of AvStar Seattle LLC, which is the combo of Starwood Capital Group Global LLC (SCGG) and Avalon Holdings, broke ground on the world’s first 1 Hotel & Residences in Seattle. The 23-story, mixed-use development will be at Second Avenue and Pine Street in downtown Seattle. The $200 M development, which is slated for occupancy in the winter 2008, includes retail, residential, and hotel components with amenities such as a 40,000 sf athletic club, organic specialty restaurant and grocer, and 8,000 sf spa. There will be 110 "City Suites" and 98 condominiums, of which, the City Suites have already been oversubscribed and pre-reserved. Also, the LEED-certified hotel will receive the 5-star management services of SCGG. We know the building was designed by Sienna Architecture, and there are some good renderings at the links below, but specific details on green amenities are still a little tough to come by. We’ll keep monitoring the roll out of the 1 green hotel brand.

Being Green Can Be Easy. EcoUrban Homes Proves It. The first of several up and coming EcoUrban homes was recently completed, and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay was on location to celebrate the grand opening. It just so happens that this home is probably one of the greenest homes in Missouri — it has obtained LEED Platinum rating. Located at 3140 Pennsylvania Avenue in St. Louis, this 3-bedroom, 2-bath, modular home has a bamboo stairs, fiber cement board siding, double-pane low-e windows, R-40 Icynene insulation in ceilings and floors, built-in security system and recycling center, solid wheat board interior doors, ultra-low VOC paints, dual-flush high-efficiency toilets, and Energy Star lighting and appliances, to name a few green amenities.

If everything pans out, 5IVE is going to be one of the hottest homes to hit the modern + green scene. You watch, I’m calling it right now. This Minneapolis, Minnesota home is aiming for the distinct accomplishment of LEED Platinum certification under the U.S. Green Building Council guidelines. Platinum green homes get attention. John Dwyer, professor at University of Minnesota and founder of Shelter Architecture, designed the home for Jeff and Saleno Gallo. 5IVE is built with precast concrete walls with an r-value in the 30s, has one of the most efficient heating and cooling systems on the market, and will use the greenest possible materials, products, appliances, and fixtures.

The blogosphere is cool because we can use it to peer into the lives of others and learn from their experiences. Jeff Gallo and Dwyer are collaborating on a blog by documenting the step-by-step process of building one of the greenest homes in Minnesota. Right now, details are a little scant (for the unbuilt portions), so check the progress at the 5IVE blog for more specifics.

It looks like there are threenewyoutube videos up of the Dwell Home by Resolution: 4 Architecture. The one above is a fly through of the Dwell Home 3D renderings. If, like me, you find that the videos are a weird way to present something modern + cool, I apologize in advance. Watch and you’ll know what I’m talking about. Mute helps. Via a.mnp.

I’ve embedded a quick view from the first season of Building Green TV for PBS. Kevin Contreras is the show’s host and he’s going to navigate viewers through a variety of different green building situations. In addition to the episode above, you can catch some more at their newly redesigned website. Coming June 2007.